A intimidade do poder em Aleksandr Sokurov: a sensação de confinamento e uma estética da decadência em Moloch, Taurus e O Sol

Abstract

This dissertation proposes to analyze three films (Moloch, Taurus and The Sun) of the so-called "Tetralogy of power" by Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Sokurov. These films represent the intimacy of Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Lenin and Hirohito, totalitarian political figures of the twentieth century, in historical situations. This study investigates in these films the displacement of the modern form of portraying the war and the revolution in the cinema predominantly associated with a political macro-structure, focused on the public space -, to an intimate representation of those same leaders and historical events, putting in the foreground the theme of death and power. The Sokurovian aesthetics is politically opposed to the form-cinema of Stalinism, the socialist realism, standing critically in relation to the past through aesthetic references of nineteenth-century paintings. Thus, his work also questions the aesthetic legacy of the war to the cinema